# Digest whorl.v011.n022

*The Whorl list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 20 Aug 2000*

<https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/whorl/955>

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### akt
*20 Aug 2000, 11:18*

> From: "Endymion9" <endymion9 at mindspring.com>

> alga scripted:

>>> Wombat enquired:
>>> 
>>> *Must we assume that, with a name like that, Endymion is a monster?

>> Hell, no, though he might be asleep at the wheel!

> Actually, I'm just a person who throughly enjoys reading Gene Wolfe
> stories.
> I often don't understand them.  I never understand them fully.  And I
> feel
> fortunate to understand more of them by reading the opinions of the
> *professional* Wolfe readers here <smile>.

Hey, that was just a little Endymion joke that I couldn't resist,
nothing more. And I bet you understand this stuff just as well as anyone
else does.

-alga


*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun.

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### Endymion9
*20 Aug 2000, 18:04 · follows akt*

alga was kind enough to reply:

> Hey, that was just a little Endymion joke that I couldn't resist,
> nothing more. And I bet you understand this stuff just as well as anyone
> else does.

I took it as that <smile>.  And thanks for the vote of confidence.  However,
I still think I'm better at asking questions while many of you are great at
answering them.  I am impressed.

Dennis/Endy
http://home.mindspring.com/~endymion9/index.htm



*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun.

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